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In my view, it is long past time for Pangloss to have shed his rose colored glasses...but that is just the thing, he never was able to be reasoned with. He could be shown the most brutal of facts, the harshest of circumstances and he would still find some naive ray of sunshine. Isn't that where we find ourselves? A nation/world in which few are able to fully understand that there is no pony buried deep beneath the pile of manure.

I had a couple of days recently that I felt some small bit of optimism. Then, I woke up to the facts and circumstances that surround me. No tribe (I can't even seem to find one in my AO) Confusion rules the day. Ignorance poses as knowledge and the corrupted forces in power know no limits to their lust.

Perhaps I should just tend to my own garden and leave the rest of the world to rage at one another.

What has folks fooled right now is that we've reached terminal velocity. No more acceleration, just constant speed down.

Trouble is, most AmeriKans don't have the ability to read the altimeter. They simply don't have the ability to connect dots. Eyes wide shut. Most won't make it through the coming mess. A few, very few, will by sheer dumb luck and the vast majority that will make it through will do so by seeing and preparing as best they can.Preparing will help one to calmly and effectively improvise, adapt and overcome.

We are in the Great Lakes area, smack in the middle of the current 'tip of the spear'. So far, it's just a low boil, but it has the potential to be quite a rumble. An Assistant AG from a neighboring state even advocated use of live ammo on demonstrators! If this situation doesn't get your attention to check preps, nothing, absolutely nothing will. Those that have made no effort to prepare, and find themselves a refuge, will not be welcome at my gate and many others I know of. James Wesley Rawles 'Patriots' type security will be in effect.

Please, please, please spread the word to folks to at least do minimal preparations. Use whatever realistic reasoning you can, lives depend on it.

Kerodin: You need to re-read John Paul Jones. We have not yet begun to fight. Let all the SEIU thugs and assorted tax termites rant and rave. They will exhaust themselves and destroy their credibility, as Wisconsin has proven. When they start pulling things like the shooting in Tuscon, then the gloves are off. They have fired on Fort Sumter, and it's kickoff time. What good would it do for me to take any action against some pol or banker? It would be dismissed as the criminal actions of a lone nut. Look at the poor soul who crashed the airplane into the IRS building in Austin. Who even remembers his name? Where was the patriotic retaliation after that horrific SWAT raid in Columbia, MO? Did anyone even picket the police station?The downside about the Web is that we can all bloviate and vent. Then we feel better and go back to punching holes in paper targets. Legally, I would not take any action unless there was a personal, unlawful encroachment on the liberty and safety of my family, my property, or me. And, as a former peace officer, I have been preparing for that for years. So keep planning and communicating. The Schumer will hit the fan soon enough. Then, you'll see the real remnant and threepers come out to play.

The family being searched take this ridiculous handling with amusement. Here is some food for thought:-Do we really have unlimited resources?-Are there people out there with real goals to hurt American citizens?-If we waste time and effort on searching the family pictured in this video, then we have lessened our ability to find those intent on destroying us.